Abstract
Near-infrared dyes - di- and tri-indocarbocyanine dyes and nickel dithiolenes - were synthesized and their third-order optical nonlinearities in solutions were investigated by using the degenerate four-wave mixing technique. Large third-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities with γ values of up to 10-29 esu were observed. The γ value of the indocarbocyanine dyes increases with increase of conjugation length of the polymethine chain. The central ring structure in the chromophore lowers the γ value of the indocarbocyanine dyes. With change of the substituents on the benzene ring an increase in γ value is observed for all the asymmetric nickel dithiolenes. The order of increase of nonlinear hyperpolarizability is as follows: H<Cl<CH3<C2H5<CH(CH 3)2.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 9-12 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Chemical Physics Letters |
| Volume | 317 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 28 Jan 2000 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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